quality gif animation

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  • detritus0

    I'm curious to know why you've written Photoshop off.

    imo, it's the best thing for quality output, given you can directly tweak colour palettes, masks, then refine for output.

    I imagine that half the work in making these GIFs is in preparing the file, reducing pixel noise and getting the most out of the palette.

    I'm sure there is software that could be used to further reduce the exported output from Photoshop (eg Fireworks, et al), but then you're talking relatively small improvements.

    The key reason these 'high fashion gifs' work well is that they've been carefully thought about in advance. I doubt there's much magic beyond hard work.

    • Not all noise is bad, mind - 'noise made out of two colours' is better than no noise made out of 20...detritus
    • ..er.. where gradients and image texture are concerned.detritus

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